Women on IUDs and LARCs more likely to have multiple abortions: new study

Women on IUDs and LARCs more likely to have multiple abortions: new study

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By Ben Johnson, Mar 24, 2016 – 2:18 pm EST

ABERDEEN, Scotland, March 24, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Upending years of widely accepted talking points from Planned Parenthood and the Obama administration, a study has found that post-abortive women who use long-acting contraceptives like the IUD or Depo-Provera are nearly twice as likely to have a repeat abortion than women who use no birth control at all.

Women who had IUDs or long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) implanted before they left the operating room had a 1.78 higher chance of having a repeat abortion within two years than women who did not, it concluded.

Researchers at Scotland’s Aberdeen University used NHS data from the Grampian (Scotland) region to study 13,621 women who had an abortion between 1997 and 2003. More than 23 percent of those women would go on to have at least one more abortion.

“The likelihood of having a repeat termination was increased in women who had a contraceptive implant as post-termination contraception compared to women who left with none, or unknown methods following the first termination,” they concluded in a study published in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care last December.

“Every year, the Guttmacher Institute documents that over 50 percent of all abortions are obtained by women who were using a method of contraception in the month they became pregnant,” he told LifeSiteNews.

Pro-life advocates say, if anything, the survey minimizes the number of repeat abortions, because LARCs have the potential to work as abortifacients. The IUD may block fertilization, but may also work to prevent a newly conceived child from implanting in the uterine wall, resulting in an early abortion.

“Yes, these methods, commonly referred to as LARCs, not only lead to more surgical abortions but can and do act to abort children during their first week of life, prior to their implantation in the womb,” Judie Brown, the founder and president of ALL, told LifeSiteNews. “Long acting reversible contraceptives, like Norplant and the like, are not only bad for the female using them but deadly for preborn babies.”

The findings of the Aberdeen University study fly in the face of claims by Planned Parenthood, the Obama administration, and certain medical organizations promoting LARCs as a panacea for unplanned pregnancies.

In its CDC report in 2012, the Obama administration promoted the use of abortifacients to reduce abortion, calling an ObamaCare regulation making LARCs available with no co-pay “an important way to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and consequently the number of abortions that are performed in the United States.”

“The AAP’s recommendations will be a great help,” Heather Boonstra of the Guttmacher Institute, which has linked to Planned Parenthood, said at the time, because they would help “change the minds of” pediatricians who do not believe that “adolescents are appropriate users for the IUD.”

ACOG denies that the IUD is abortifacient by changing the beginning of life from fertilization to implantation.

However, AAP admits there are undesirable side effects among young women. IUD “expulsion” – in which the the device rips through the uterus potentially causing such issues as kidney failure – “may occur more frequently in younger women.”

Also “more than half of” young women who have never given birth “report moderate to severe pain with insertion.”

Nonetheless, the abortion industry continues to promote LARCs – the most expensive form of birth control Planned Parenthood offers – to its clientele. In itsmost recent annual report, Planned Parenthood touted its work to “raise awareness about the most effective forms of reversible birth control — IUDs and hormonal implants. These long-acting reversible contraceptives are shown to reduce unintended pregnancy.”

Another study in the same journal as the Aberdeen study found that British women who have their abortion performed in a sexual and reproductive health center, similar to an American Planned Parenthood, are up to twice as likely to be fitted for an IUD immediately afterwards than those who have their abortion performed in a hospital.

“Given this knowledge, as confirmed by the recent study, it is dishonest for groups like Planned Parenthood to continue to pretend that the use of contraceptives decreases the number of abortions,” Sedlak told LifeSiteNews. “It is simply not true.”

Faced with these conclusions, the Aberdeen University study’s lead researcher, Dr. Sohinee Bhattacharya, said the answer is more widespread use of the IUD. Dr. Bhattacharya told the Scottish newspaper The National that she may develop an app that would remind women to have their IUD or LARC replaced with a new one when it expires, as doctors do in Cambodia.

But pro-life advocates say both science and experience suggest this is a poor solution.

“The materials of the culture of death never have good outcomes for those who use them,” Judie Brown told LifeSiteNews, but “those who follow natural law assist in building a culture of life, love, and good health.”

Michael Voris talks an in-depth discussion of the true, financial cost of abortion and its effects to the United States. Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that, “The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death” (CDF, Donum vitae III; CCC: 2273).

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This week on Mic’d Up we’ll be tackling the terrible scourge of Contraception on the Church. Michael Hichborn and Rey Flores from American Life League will join us to expose Catholic Relief Services complicity with Organizations who support contraception and to Discuss The Pill Kills Day of Action 2014. Also joining us will be Lynn Mills who will be discussing the continued prayer rally at Providence Park Hospital in the Archdiocese of Detroit because of their complicity in abortion, contraception and sterilization. Following that same thread we’ll break down the announcement from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron concerning the crisis of parish closings facing Detroit. Also dropping by will be author James Kalb, to discuss the plague of pluralism on the Church’s Hierarchy.